It's the size of a grapefruit but doesn't give you bad breath. It's the stuff of a garlic lover's dreams - and a vampire's nightmares. Bulbs of garlic the size of a grapefruit are about to go on sale ...

As I’ve written in the past, our gardens are a combination of food production and science projects. Sometimes I’ll plant a variety of something just to see what happens, and sometimes nothing happens.

The member of the leek family is entering peak season Elephant garlic appeals to a broad range of tastes, including folks who don't care for common garlic. This may be because elephant garlic is ...

A. Elephant garlic (Allium ampeloprasum) looks like a giant garlic clove but, in fact, is not a true garlic but more closely related to a leek. The title refers to the size of the clove. It is a hardy ...

The softball-sized bulbs of elephant garlic come as a surprise to those who don’t know about this leek relative. Instead of growing a solid bulb like a leek, the plants form a bulb that looks like ...

Q. A friend recently gave me several heads of elephant garlic from their garden. I’m wondering if it is too late to plant these or should I just plan on using them all in the kitchen? -D. Sutton, ...

AUMSVILLE, Ore. — Ken Haley has a short answer to the question of why he chose growing fist-sized bulbs of elephant garlic instead of the much-smaller purple garlic. He focused on elephant garlic, as ...

Elephant garlic is not true garlic and instead belongs to the garden leek family. The broad, flat leaves grow above the large garlic-like bulb, filled with flavoursome, "mammoth"-sized cloves. Growing ...

Visitors to North Plains this weekend can travel back in time at this year's Elephant Garlic Festival, as the event celebrates Oregon's 150th birthday this year and North Plains' centennial next year.